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Exhibit 10.2 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT dated as
of September 9, 2008, among USG CORPORATION, THE SUBSIDIARIES
OF USG CORPORATION
IDENTIFIED HEREIN and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative
Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
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Definitions
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SECTION 1.01. Credit Agreement
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SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms
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1
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ARTICLE II
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Guarantee
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SECTION 2.01. Guarantee
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2
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SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment
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2
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SECTION 2.03. No Limitations
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3
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SECTION 2.04. Reinstatement
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3
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SECTION 2.05. Agreement To Pay; Subrogation
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4
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SECTION 2.06. Information
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ARTICLE III
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Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination
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SECTION 3.01. Indemnity and Subrogation
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SECTION 3.02. Contribution and Subrogation
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SECTION 3.03. Subordination
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ARTICLE IV
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Miscellaneous
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SECTION 4.01. Notices
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SECTION 4.02. Waivers; Amendment
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SECTION 4.03. Administrative Agent’s Fees and Expenses;
Indemnification
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SECTION 4.04. Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 4.05. Survival of Agreement
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SECTION 4.06. Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement
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SECTION 4.07. Severability
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SECTION 4.08. Right of Set-Off
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SECTION 4.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of
Process
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SECTION 4.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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SECTION 4.11. Headings
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SECTION 4.12. Guarantee Absolute
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SECTION 4.13. Termination or Release
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SECTION 4.14. Additional Subsidiaries
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SECTION 4.15. Loan Party Representative
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Schedules
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Schedule I Subsidiary Guarantors
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Exhibits
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Exhibit I Form of New Subsidiary Supplement
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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT dated as of September 9, 2008 (this "
Agreement "), among USG CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation,
in its capacity as a Guarantor (in such capacity, the " Parent
Borrower ") and in its capacity as the Loan Party
Representative (as such term is defined herein), each Subsidiary of
the Parent Borrower from time to time party hereto and JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Reference is made to the
Credit Agreement dated as of September 9, 2008 (as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
" Credit Agreement "), among the Parent Borrower, the Loan
Party Representative, the Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time
party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such
capacity, the " Administrative Agent "). The Lenders have
agreed to extend credit to the Borrowers subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement. The obligations of
the Lenders to extend such credit are conditioned upon, among other
things, the execution and delivery of this Agreement. The
Subsidiaries party hereto are affiliates of the Borrowers, will
derive substantial benefits from the extension of credit to the
Borrowers pursuant to the Credit Agreement and are willing to
execute and deliver this Agreement in order to induce the Lenders
to extend such credit. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as
follows: ARTICLE I Definitions SECTION 1.01. Credit
Agreement. (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement
and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings specified in the
Credit Agreement. (b) The rules of construction specified in
Section 1.03 of the Credit Agreement also apply to this
Agreement. SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms. As used in
this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified
below: " Claiming Party " has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 3.02. " Contributing Party " has the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.02. " Credit
Agreement " has the meaning assigned to such term in the
preliminary statement of this Agreement. " Guaranteed
Parties " means (a) the Lenders, (b) the
Administrative Agent, (c) the beneficiaries of each
indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any
Loan Document and (d) the permitted successors and assigns of
each of the foregoing.
" Guarantors " means (a) the Parent Borrower,
(b) the Subsidiaries identified on Schedule I and
(c) each other Subsidiary that becomes a party to this
Agreement after the Effective Date, provided that no
Borrower shall be deemed to be a Guarantor with respect to any of
the Secured Obligations of such Borrower (other than the
Obligations of such Borrower described in clause (c) of the
definition of the term "Obligations"). " Loan Party
Representative " has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.15. " Parent Borrower " has the meaning
assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this
Agreement. ARTICLE II Guarantee SECTION 2.01.
Guarantee. Each Guarantor unconditionally guarantees,
jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary
obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment
and performance of the Secured Obligations (including the Secured
Obligations of any Subsidiary Borrower designated as such on or
after the Effective Date). Each of the Guarantors further agrees
that the Secured Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole
or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that
it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any
extension or renewal of any Secured Obligation. Each of the
Guarantors waives presentment to, demand of payment from and
protest to the Borrowers or any other Loan Party of any of the
Secured Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its
guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment. For purposes of
clarity, each of the Guarantors agrees that the Secured Obligations
shall include all obligations under the Loan Documents and all
obligations associated with any Banking Services, in each case of
any Subsidiary Borrower that is designated as such after the
Effective Date. SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment. Each of
the Guarantors further agrees that its guarantee hereunder
constitutes a guarantee of payment when due and not of collection,
and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the
Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party to any security
held for the payment of the Secured Obligations or to any balance
of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Administrative
Agent or any other Guaranteed Party in favor of the Borrowers or
any other Person.
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SECTION 2.03. No Limitations. (a) Except for
termination of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as
expressly provided in Section 4.13, the obligations of each
Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction,
limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any
claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and
shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim,
recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity,
illegality or unenforceability of the Secured Obligations or
otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or
impaired or otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the
Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party to assert any
claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy under the
provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any
rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release
from any of the terms or provisions of, any Loan Document or any
other agreement, including with respect to any other Guarantor
under this Agreement; (iii) the release of any security, if
any, held by the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party
for the Secured Obligations or any of them; (iv) any default,
failure or delay, wilful or otherwise, in the performance of the
Secured Obligations; or (v) any other act or omission that may
or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any
Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a
matter of law or equity (other than the payment in full in cash of
all the Secured Obligations). (b) To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense
based on or arising out of any defense of the Parent Borrower or
any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the Secured
Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation
from any cause of the liability of the Parent Borrower or any other
Loan Party, other than the payment in full in cash of all the
Secured Obligations. The Administrative Agent may, at its election,
foreclose on any security held by it by one or more judicial or
nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in
lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Secured
Obligations, make any other accommodation with the Parent Borrower
or any other Loan Party or exercise any other right or remedy
available to it against the Parent Borrower or any other Loan
Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of
any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Secured
Obligations have been paid in full in cash. To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense
arising out of any such election even though such election may
operate, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any
right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of
such Guarantor against the Parent Borrower or any other Loan Party,
as the case may be, or any security. SECTION 2.04.
Reinstatement. Each of the Guarantors agrees that its
guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part
thereof, of any Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be
restored by the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party
upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Parent Borrower, any
other Loan Party or otherwise.
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SECTION 2.05. Agreement To Pay; Subrogation. In
furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other
right that the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party
has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof,
upon the failure of the Parent Borrower or any other Loan Party to
pay any Secured Obligation when and as the same shall become due,
whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or
otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith
pay, or cause to be paid, to the Administrative Agent for
distribution to the applicable Guaranteed Parties in cash the
amount of such unpaid Secured Obligation. Upon payment by any
Guarantor of any sums to the Administrative Agent as provided
above, all rights of such Guarantor against the Parent Borrower or
any other Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of
subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise
shall in all respects be subject to Article III. SECTION 2.06.
Information. Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for
being and keeping itself informed of the Parent Borrower’s
and each other Loan Party’s financial condition and assets,
and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment
of the Secured Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the
risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees
that none of the Administrative Agent or the other Guaranteed
Parties will have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information
known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
ARTICLE III Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination SECTION
3.01. Indemnity and Subrogation. In addition to all such
rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Guarantors may have
under applicable law (but subject to Section 3.03), each
Guarantor that is a Borrower agrees, in its capacity as a Borrower,
that in the event a payment of an obligation of such Guarantor
shall be made by any other Guarantor under this Agreement, such
Guarantor, in its capacity as a Borrower, shall indemnify such
other Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and such other
Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Person to whom
such payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment.
SECTION 3.02. Contribution and Subrogation. Each Guarantor
(a " Contributing Party ") agrees (subject to
Section 3.03) that, in the event a payment shall be made by
any other Guarantor hereunder in respect of any Secured Obligation
and such other Guarantor (the " Claiming Party ") shall not
have been fully indemnified by the applicable Borrower as provided
in Section 3.01, the Contributing Party shall indemnify the
Claiming Party in an amount equal to the amount of such payment
multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the net
worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof (or, in the case
of any Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to
Section 4.14, the date of the supplement hereto executed and
delivered by such Guarantor) and the denominator shall be the
aggregate net worth of all the Guarantors on the date hereof (or,
in the case of any Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to
Section 4.14, the date of the supplement hereto executed and
delivered by such Guarantor). Any Contributing Party making any
payment to a Claiming Party pursuant to this Section 3.02
shall be subrogated to the rights of such Claiming Party under
Section 3.01 to the extent of such payment.
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SECTION 3.03. Subordination. (a) Notwithstanding any
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the
Guarantors under Sections 3.01 and 3.02 and all other rights
of indemnity, contribution or subrogation under applicable law or
otherwise shall be fully subordinated to the payment in full in
cash of the Secured Obligations. No failure on the part of any
Borrower or any Guarantor to make the payments required by
Sections 3.01 and 3.02 (or any other payments required under
applicable law or otherwise) shall in any respect limit the
obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor with respect to its
obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor shall remain liable for
the full amount of the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that, on and after the
Existing Credit Agreement Termination Date, all Indebtedness owed
by it to any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be
fully subordinated to the payment in full in cash of the Secured
Obligations. ARTICLE IV Miscellaneous SECTION 4.01.
Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall
(except as otherwise expressly permitted herein) be in writing and
given as provided in Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement. All
communications and notices hereunder to any Guarantor shall be
given to it in care of the Loan Party Representative as provided in
Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement. SECTION 4.02.
Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or power
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a
waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps
to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The
rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are
not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise
have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to
any departure by any Guarantor or the Loan Party Representative
therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be
permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 4.02, and then
such waiver or consent s
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